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To: RedMDer

A couple of points.

1. DEBKA has never been right about anything that I am aware of.

2. That picture is of the USS Enterprise transiting the Suez Canal.

3. You do not “park” and aircraft carrier, you “anchor” it, and when you do it is basically useless for launching anything other than helicopters.

4. The US Navy would not allow any warship, much less the USS Enterprise, to come within eyesight of an enemy flotilla, much less “park opposite” one.


13 posted on 02/21/2011 2:04:28 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: Bean Counter

Right you are.


23 posted on 02/21/2011 2:10:07 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Bean Counter
"3. You do not “park” and aircraft carrier, you “anchor” it, and when you do it is basically useless for launching anything other than helicopters."


30 posted on 02/21/2011 2:15:38 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Bean Counter

“You do not “park” and aircraft carrier, you “anchor” it, and when you do it is basically useless for launching anything other than helicopters”
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Could we roll a harpoon out on deck and put the pointy end toward the Iranian ships?

If we can’t launch aircraft?


40 posted on 02/21/2011 2:22:50 PM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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